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Display & Behavior Settings

Philosophy

Tune the visual experience and interaction logic of your calendar. These settings impact how time is represented and how you interact with the calendar grid.

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Time & Dates

  • 24-Hour Time: Toggle between AM/PM and 24h military time.

    System Locale & Environment Override

    Many underlying date and time format properties (like 24-hour display and day/month/year order) are inherited directly from your operating system's locale settings via Obsidian.

    If you want to use the English interface but force 24-hour time and the day/month/year (DD/MM/YYYY) formatting on Linux or macOS, you can launch Obsidian with the LANG environment variable set to en_DK.UTF-8:

    LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 obsidian

    For more details and community discussion on this setup, see GitHub Issue #272, Comment 4529803759.

  • First Day of Week: Choose which day (Sunday, Monday, etc.) starts your week view.

    Change First Day of Week

  • Display Timezone: Anchor the entire calendar to a specific timezone. Defaults to your system timezone. See Timezone Support.

View Constraints & Limits

These settings allow you to focus on your active hours and clean up the UI:

  • Slot Min/Max Time: Set the start and end of the visible day (e.g., 08:00 to 20:00).
  • Show Weekends: Toggle the visibility of Saturday and Sunday.
  • Hidden Days: Precisely hide specific days of the week (0=Sun, 1=Mon, etc.).
  • Show All-Day Slot: Toggle the all-day event row in week/day views.
  • Day Max Events: In Month view, limit the number of events shown per day before showing a "+ more" link.

Interaction & UI

  • Click to Create Event (Month View): If enabled, clicking an empty date cell in month view immediately opens the event creation modal.
  • Milestones and Progress: Open the milestones page from Appearance to review read-only progress cards and unlock status. See Milestones and Progress.
  • Initial View (Desktop/Mobile): Define which view mode (e.g., timeGridWeek, listMonth) the plugin opens by default on different devices.
  • Show Event in Status Bar: Display the current or upcoming event in the Obsidian status bar. See: Status Bar Integration.
  • Highlight Current/Next Event: Visually emphasize the event happening now or starting soon.
  • Header Date Format: Choose from several presets for how dates appear in column headers (e.g., Wed 4/9).

Global Overrides

  • Business Hours: Define your working hours and days. If enabled, non-business hours will be visually dimmed in the calendar grid.
  • Background Events: Enable or disable the rendering of background-style events (e.g., from ActivityWatch).

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